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Annualized excess spread and a cash spread account should mitigate concerns around the timing of cash flow to the trust and the collateral's assumed discount rate, says DBRS.
May 12 -
Since the previous deal from the master trust, the number of Hotwire Communications sites has increased from 515 to 675, and key performance metrics have improved.
May 11 -
The transaction benefits from several forms of credit enhancement, including overcollateralization, excess spread and Vervent acting as backup servicer.
May 10 -
Loans that have yet to be originated must adhere to limitations. No more than $719,870 of originations can consist of loans made to students attending proprietary schools.
May 9 -
A vast majority of the collateral, a combined 82.73%, have terms of between 49-60 months (58.46%) and 61-72 months (24.27%), while a slight majority of the pool (51.66%) have no credit scores.
May 9 -
Losses are increasing in both the managed portfolio and the securitization, the deal, known as EART 2023-2, has a number of forms of credit enhancements built into the structure.
May 8 -
Monthly payment rates in the pool reached record highs over the last couple of years, reaching 71.5% at the end of Q1 2023, one of several credit positives to the deal.
May 8 -
The program, which is facing some declines in performance, had not issued any credit card ABS since 2019-C, when it had issued about twice the current amount.
May 5 -
GoodLeap 2023-2 has loans with fewer 25-year terms and higher FICO scores generally. Together, they'll have lower expected loss rates than those with longer terms and lower FICO scores.
May 5 -
GMALT 2023-2 offers note holders several advantages from a credit perspective, according to Fitch, including strong residual value realizations on the cars being financed.
May 4 -
Actual shipping vessel usage dropped to less than 70% during the COVID-19 pandemic, but its utilization rate only slipped to 98.4% during the pandemic.
May 3 -
Underlying loans fell into higher credit tiers this time around, a result of ongoing tightening in the sponsor company's origination strategies.
May 2 -
The pool will have an average senior overcollateralization cushion of 10.33%. Overall, however, the portfolio has a lower WA spread and lower available excess spread, which it says indicates a weaker underlying portfolio.
May 1 -
At around June 15, 2024, the VSAC will reach the end of a collateral recycling period, when it has the option to originate additional eligible loans.
April 28 -
The senior, triple-A rated notes, which is in the A-1B class, are expected to have a 210 basis point spread, with a 38% credit enhancement level.
April 28 -
The deal has a higher percentage of open bankruptcy assets, and the level of called collateral is 10.6%, which should actually slip to 8.0% of the final pool.
April 27 -
Sunrun will issue the notes off of a portfolio of 25,789 leases and PPAs associated with solar instillations, some of which include storage equipment, extended to prime borrowers.
April 26 -
The current transaction—the platform's seventh Rule 144A deal—includes a 'AAA' note class, does not have a pre-funding period, and has a higher net recovery rate over the previous deal.
April 26 -
Landmark Funding Trust does not include a class E tranche, and overcollateralization has increased to 21.00% of the initial adjusted loan principal balance, from 10.35%.
April 25 -
A vast majority of the assets, 82.34%, were originated at 36-month terms, and Fitch notes that consumer preferences for longer term periods weigh in as a credit positive.
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